Sandra Wilcoxon has always been fascinated and inspired by nature, which influenced her artwork in many mediums. She has been drawing her whole life and majored in art in college, but only recently took up watercolor painting. This marked a new direction in her art, and Sandra soon began to focus on botanical painting and drawing. The emphasis on observation and detail leads to discovering new shapes, forms and textures. This also dovetails with her interest in conservation and promoting good environmental practices.

Her botanical subjects show vibrant, colorful flowers; delicious fruits and vegetables; subtle hues and textures of leaves; and rough branches with feathery mosses and lichens. She also experiments with styles and materials, at times using a pen and sketchbook approach, delicate silverpoint, color pencil, or painting on vellum. The exploration of mediums is as fascinating as the variety of plants depicted. This allows for discovering something new in a familiar subject, or something fresh in a traditional medium. That is the wonder of nature and art.

Sandra conducts workshops on nature journaling and bookbinding, and is also working in ceramics, exploring organic forms in clay. Prior to working in botanic art, she produced and exhibited a series of mixed media sculptures using bones, skulls and beads. Over the course of more than forty years, Sandra has participated in dozens of solo and juried exhibitions of prints, drawings, wearable art and jewelry.

After a long career working as an executive and consultant in the nonprofit sector, Sandra is now retired and lives with her husband and pets near Chicago.

See more work at www.skwilcoart.com or on Instagram.